George Cabot

George Cabot (3 December 1752-18 April 1823) was a US Senator from Massachusetts from 4 March 1791 to 9 June 1796, succeeding Tristram Dalton and preceding Benjamin Goodhue. He was a member of the Federalist Party.

Biography
George Cabot was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1752, and he became a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775 while working as a ship captain. In 1777, he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention, and he served as a delegate to the national Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. From 1791 to 1796, he served in the US Senate, and he became a director of the First Bank of the United States in 1793. He opposed the Embargo Act of 1807 due to its effects on the mercantile shipping industry, and Cabot opposed the War of 1812. He died in Boston in 1823, and his great-grandson Henry Cabot Lodge would become a prominent politician in the Republican Party.